One of the best things I've been able to do as a playwright is work with Pillsbury House Theatre's Chicago Avenue Project (CAP). Last year I mentored a hilarious student-playwright who wrote a fantastic play about a bad magician. This year I got to write the play myself for a different hilarious student. When I met Sarafina, she told me she loved Anime and was obsessed with Japan, hoping to study abroad there one day. I never wrote a youth play before, but I could not have been more excited to write an Anime-styled play for Sarafina to perform, titled LET'S GO TO JAPAN! Now I get to watch it produced on May 8th and 9th alongside several other plays. CAP is an incredibly valuable project for the community, engaging young people in the arts. I am now a program devotee! And I hope folks around the community will be able to come see these wonderful students put themselves out there on stage.